Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Tuesday slapped down his Democratic Senate opponent Beto O’Rourke for suggesting President Trump should be impeached over the comments he made in Helsinki during a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“.@BetoORourke looking to raise even more far-Left $$, yet again calls for impeaching @realDonaldTrump,” Cruz wrote on Twitter, using a hashtag to call O’Rourke “reckless and out of touch.” “This partisan extremism may resonate great in Hollywood, but it doesn’t reflect the views of the vast majority of Texans.”
“Irony abounds, amidst far-Left fury….” he continued in response to a tweet mocking O’Rourke, who previously advocated for civility in politics.
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.@BetoORourke looking to raise even more far-Left $$, yet again calls for impeaching @realDonaldTrump This partisan extremism may resonate great in Hollywood, but it doesn’t reflect the views of the vast majority of Texans. #RecklessAndOutOfTouch https://t.co/v4HH6TQ8gp
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 17, 2018
Irony abounds, amidst far-Left fury…. https://t.co/DXGPzLCUWo
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 17, 2018
Cruz’s campaign manager Jeff Roe added that O’Rourke was “a fringe candidate” for supporting impeachment when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was distancing herself from that rhetoric, according to the Dallas Morning News.
In an email to the newspaper, O’Rourke said there was “certainly enough” to proceed with articles of impeachment following Trump appearing to side with Putin over his own intelligence community by describing Putin’s denials that the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 election as “extremely strong and powerful.”
“Standing on stage in another country with the leader of another country who wants to and has sought to undermine this country, and to side with him over the United States – if I were asked to vote on this I would vote to impeach the president,” O’Rourke wrote.
This is not the first time O’Rourke has suggested impeachment. He signaled in April he would vote in favor of impeachment proceedings after expressing hesitation in October, per the Dallas Morning News.
Cruz and O’Rourke will face each other in their closely watched general election on Nov. 6.
